Hi Luna, welcome! We know each other already, I'm nonetheless very happy to see you here :omg:k:

Zenius-i-vanisher https://zenius-i-vanisher.com/v5.2/forums.php Is one of the few places to talk about rhythm games, although not that many people want to so it's a bit small haha. There are still a good amount of custom songs and mods being made there though.

omggg I used to check this one so often back when I was obsessed with bemani music!! I also remember them having a useful tool which you could manually update to tell where arcade cabinets were. It's such a shame that arcade culture never really took off in the western world in the last ten/fifteen years

There are MyAnimeList forums: https://myanimelist.net/forum/. But if you want to talk about a specific series, it's better to go to that series page and then scroll down to the discussions.

Also Anilist forums: https://anilist.c:ha:forum/overview

To be fair Anilist forums are much more lackluster in terms of discussion and depth, at least in my experience (although it felt like there was less toxicity than MAL)

This is cool, thanks for posting it! I didn't actually know Matrix had group servers like Discord, I thought it was just a private messenger!
I might drop by some time

Please, by any means! The element client is actually very cozy to use, imo.

HI MEMO!

just gonna quietly drop this here...

https://matrix.t:ha:#/#mental-illness-gaming:matrix.org

hi hi!!

Hey! I honestly have been liking Matrix so far, and would rather use that much more, expecially if compared to Discord. Would it be okay to have this post to share our matrix chatrooms?

What's matrix?
Matrix is an open source chat protocol built with security in mind, and is self-hostable. My account is hosted onto matrix.envs.net, but it doesn't matter where you create it since you can then talk to the whole federated network (something akin to the fediverse). The more mature client is Element, at the moment.

astral town
My lil space shares the name of my website, astral town (invite link)! It's just a cozy little place to talk about anything that might sound interesting, be it the smallweb, videogames, crocheting, etcetera.

Firefox on desktop, Mull on Android.

GameFAQs forums are also still somewhat alive, depending on the game. Things still get asked and answers are still provided!

I thought about this yesterday, and as ironic as it sounds I am extremly serious: how to line bedsheets with blankets while making the bed, so that they are at the same exact length once it reaches the upper side (the pillow zone) of the bed.

I used to code it on my browser while on neocities since their editor is more than fine (and actually has nice themes!), but after moving to a different kind of host I started editing everything through Kate, KDE's official editor, and I like it very much.

hey, welcome! Don't worry too much about having to make the perfect website or anything - fixing it up and always changing things is something I always do. Hope we will also be able to see some of your poetry and writing!

wow I love your art so much!! it's so expressive and generally so wonderful as an artstyle

and edwurt.... he be floating.... committing mischiefs ......

welcome to this little corner of the internet! I hope you'll have much fun.

aaa thank you both!

I very much agree with both! In the end I like to use terms such as small web, indie web because they include minimal but modern-looking websites too, and the gemini protocol I feel like.

Web Revival sounds great too! And indeed, I almost forgot about the fact that neocities does aim to the future with its name. Why, we could even take direct inspiration and coin the term neoweb since we're at it.

I have to say I have my doubts about the yesterweb as a name, but as you mentioned it's a word that is much less limiting and more open to interpretation so it doesn't bother me.

Hello! I thought I'd post some of my works, some digital and some on paper.

To keep things tidy I'll post clickable thumbnails here, which'll then open a mastodon post with the full image (I hope that's okay?)

Hello melonland users!
I've been wondering about this for some days and I think it could make for an interesting topic.

As mentioned in the title - should it really be called the Retro Web? What I mean by this is: isn't the word "Retro" a bit too limited for what such communities explore?
I get it, many of us (me included) started this journey by simply mimicking the old web by having very light static html pages, in heavy contrast with the more bloated web; still many of us however then grew to appreciate so many more aspects: the communities that give birth, the privacy/ecological/social awareness, the amazing creative possibilities that one gains as soon as they leave the all-so-limiting modern social networks.

Hell, I know, neocities itself is one letter away from geocities; but this isn't simply booting up an old C64 and playing some games on tape: there's a constant evolution of ideas, currents, movements. Even the mimicked html pages already have a very distinct feel than what one would encounter fifteen to twenty years ago.

The more I think about it and the more I believe we're not simply "picking up the pieces" of what has been left - we're creating something new, with far more specific ideals and a deep love for handcrafted digital environments.

What do you think?